The Wisconsin legislative session is starting to gain momentum and it’s time to get to work. Governor Scott Walker’s proposed budget contains $77 million in new funding for local road repair. That’s important because it means more potholes will get filled, more local roads will be resurfaced and more county highways will get paved shoulders. [...]

Thanks to Jacqui Sakowski for this guest post as a friendly reminder to be respectful of the rural communities in which we ride. I added the title above (Jacqui’s title is below) because as a person who his ridden his bike though small towns across the United States and abroad, I think we often are [...]

The Wisconsin Bike Fed works primarily with state and local governments. But we do keep an eye on the Federal level where most of the lobbying is carried on by the League of American Bicyclists and by the industry and its arm People for Bikes. Below find an analysis of President Trump’s initial Federal budget [...]

With the late season snow and a pretty long 86 mile route on a partially snow covered gravel, the crew from Ben’s Cycle decided to postpone their long ride to Rome, the second official ride in this year’s Wisconsin Spring Classic Series presented by Lowlands Group. They had plans to grill out, buy beer and [...]

I talk to a lot of state legislators. At least among majority Republicans, a question I often get is something along the lines of, “why don’t cyclists want to pay for their own bike lanes?” In fact, a couple of years ago one very powerful legislator, Rep. John Nygren (R-Marinette) who co-chairs the Joint Finance [...]